Quote Originally Posted by KOPF View Post
Anecdotally I gave some of the acceptable phrases to couple of my friends who share my nationality and they thought them as condescending and passive aggressive. Also I can say that in EU there are very different interpretations on what is perceived as the polite way to give and receive advice. And of course if someone insults or acts deliberately belligerent, it should be worthy of a report.

I haven't had a warning or ban to my knowledge in 8 years, so most likely nothing will change, but these clarifications do seem to be directed to Japanese and their culture. This coupled with some very disheartening allegations of how Square Enix EU customer support seems to enforce these rules (Sorriow case) makes it ripe for exploitation from all sides. Hopefully it does not happen, but I'd rather not had the option for that occurring in the first place.
Not to mention, sometimes that context... it's so important.

I had to look over every example a few times, but I believe I finally understand what gave me my recent suspension for "griefing" despite my lack of content being done for a pretty long time. You cannot threaten someone with a kick, which I had an incident of relation in Novice Network. We had a player, a mentor no less, forcing an unwanted topic in the newbie chat about whether calling people the R word is a perfectly acceptable and normal thing to do (they were arguing for it too...) and everyone was telling them to stop. I told them if they continued that behavior, because this is not the chat to argue this, and everyone is telling them to stop, they would be kicked. To which they removed me instantly since, well, they were a mentor.

But I still threatened to kick them for their behavior. To quote an example of "Don't do this" ... "I can have you kicked from this group at any time." Arguably, I fit that catagory, as I showed a threat that I could remove them from the chat at any point over what they were doing.

... Except if look at the context, I was warning them that their behavior was completely not okay. At all. And I took the punishment for it. How does that tell me to do anything different from just removing them instead of trying to communicate. You know... The POINT of these?